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her mother was in 1942. 140 This International Red Cross message consisted of
approximately fifteen words. 141 It is not known whether or not they perished in the
Warsaw ghetto or were deported to an extermination camp. Despite her constant
attempts to secure permits for her parents and brother through the Australian
Jewish Welfare Society, she was ultimately unsuccessful. All her immediate
family members perished. 142
The last residence in Magdeburg of Otto and Regina Herrmann, the parents of
Inge-Ruth, was at Große Klosterstraße 10a. 143 In September 1940 the couple left
Magdeburg and relocated to Potsdam, where they were working at a Jewish home
for the aged. 144 Prior to this Otto Herrmann had been a forced labourer in
Magdeburg. 145 Sometime thereafter, they moved to Berlin 146 and were deported
from their registered address in the city centre, which was Große Hamburger
Straße 26. 147
Otto and Regina Herrmann maintained a regular correspondence with Otto
Herrmann’s sister, Betty Caspari, who had fled with her husband, Max, to neutral
Sweden. 148 Mail was possible via the International Red Cross. Shortly prior to
140 Personal file on the Jankelowitz family, Bestand Pe, Signatur Nr. 22, ASGM, op.
cit.
141 Kent, op. cit., 12 January 1998.
142 The lives and fates of the members of the Jankelowitz family have also been
discussed in previous chapters, particularly in Chapters Two and Three.
143 Personal file on the Herrmann family, Bestand Pe, Signatur Nr. 20, ASGM, op. cit.
144 Private correspondence from Otto Herrmann, 25 November 1940, Private Archive
of I. Poppert, op. cit.
145 Austinat, op. cit., 29 January 2001.
146 Private correspondence from Otto Herrmann, 29 November 1942, Private Archive
of I. Poppert, op. cit.
147 Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Freie Universität Berlin, ed.,
Gedenkbuch Berlins der jüdischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus Berlin: Edition
Hentrich, 1995, pp. 484–485.
148 Betty Caspari geborene Herrmann, Die Familie der Herrmanns, 1944 with
amendments in 1971 and 2004, Private Archive of I. Poppert, op. cit. pp. 3–4. This